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5.0 out of 5 starsQuite simply these are two of the finest family films made in the last 30 years

17 July 2018

Quite simply these are two of the finest family films made in the last 30 years. Everything about these films tells you they were made with absolute love and respect for the character and his author, the late Michael Bond. The cast is uniformly wonderful and completely game for anything, but the stand-out performance for me is, unsurprisingly, Ben Wishaw as Paddington. It is so heartwarming to experience a character so totally devoid of cynicism, so concerned with the well-being of others, who so embodies the simple ethos given to him by his beloved Aunt Lucy: Be kind and polite, and the world will be right.

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Quite simply these are two of the finest family films made in the last 30 years. Everything about these films tells you they were made with absolute love and respect for the character and his author, the late Michael Bond. The cast is uniformly wonderful and completely game for anything, but the stand-out performance for me is, unsurprisingly, Ben Wishaw as Paddington. It is so heartwarming to experience a character so totally devoid of cynicism, so concerned with the well-being of others, who so embodies the simple ethos given to him by his beloved Aunt Lucy: Be kind and polite, and the world will be right.

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Funnier and more endearing than the first movie with a better story IMHO, it features the familiar stellar cast along with stellar supporting actors such as Hugh Grant as the baddie, Tom Conti, Meera Syal, Brendan Gleason (to name but a few) and is just a great family movie. I especially love the reference in the prison escape sequence to the Wes Anderson playbook from the Grand Budapest Hotel! Highly recommended!

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Impossible to review these terrific movies. Put aside the inspired casting, immaculate CGI, gag rate, cunning parodies - these films are damned clever. Paul King has made maximum use of all the possibilities that the cinema can offer and still succeeded in producing two first class pieces of 'family' (proper 'family') entertainment. They repay re-watching, thank goodness, so why buy one when you can buy two? And did I mention the politics? A warm, non-judgemental, inclusive multi-cultural society is presented to us and we'd be fools to turn it down. Right on!

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Well if you thought the first one was cute, the second is a lulu, or should that be Lucy?Beautifully acted, directed, with special effects just incredible.Makes you laugh - makes you cry, a very good price for invoking such emotions.

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A good film with the very wonderful Ben Whishaw as the voice of Paddington, the one problem for me was the casting of Hugh Grant who for me is not a good actor in that he always plays himself in all the films he is in, apart from that it's a fine film.